Interviews

What do you get when you put a steel pannist in a room with a saxophone player? Or with an accordion player? Or with a rapper, a hammered dulcimer player, a spoken word artist, or a darbuka player? In the case of Jonathan Scales’ video duet series, Scales & Friend, you get an exploration of […]

Seminal Australian Rock band Hoodoo Gurus started working on new music in 2019, and the process of discovering new directions continued throughout the pandemic period leading up to their tenth studio album, also their first in 11 years. Now, they are poised to release a 13-track album on March 11th, Chariot of the Gods, and […]

Gideon King & City Blog are a New York-based collective of musicians, all of whom have built up followings in various genres and their connectedness to different musical worlds is part of what they bring to the group in their collaborative recording sessions and live performances. The current lineup includes songwriter and guitarist Gideon King, […]

Irish singer/songwriter and performer Wallis Bird released the challenging album, Woman, in 2019, leaning into Soul music and taking on global ideas that later crystallized for her as the “fall of empires” in our current world. Moving in 2020, she didn’t intend to work on new music, but rather have some down time, however, getting […]

It would be understandable if someone who’s never listened to The Fearless Flyers thinks their instrumental post-modern funk might be nerdy, or that it perhaps falls into the Jamband category or that it’s experimental Bitches Brew-type jazz, but the band’s songs are written with catchy pop-length arrangements that hook listeners and take them through the changes, […]

Joss Stone is a multi-talented lady. She’s a singer, songwriter, actress and can cook in her kitchen with hundreds of her fans watching her culinary successes … and disasters. But whatever she does, it’s always with a smile on her face. Not even covid could deflate Stone’s happiness, although it did deter her plans for […]

It’s only February, but I feel confident in saying that one of the best albums you will hear this year is Carson McHone’s Still Life, due out this Friday, February 25th on Merge Records. The Austin-based singer-songwriter has been performing much of her adult life and forged a respectable folk-rock meets country sound on her […]

“I’m fresh from my walk and feeling good,” Joan Osborne tells me when I call in for our interview. “I live mostly on the East Coast so it’s great to be someplace where it’s 60 degrees in the middle of January.” Osborne is indeed refreshed from the sunny California weather and spends our time together […]

Anyone who has ever been lucky enough to speak with Del McCoury has surely found themselves immersed in tales that stretch back sixty years and often involve some of the most famous musicians in bluegrass, country, and even rock. Indeed, the legendary bluegrass picker has a lifetime of stories to tell and he loves to […]

On February 11th, acclaimed alternative rockers Urge Overkill released Oui, their first studio album in more than a decade. But even co-frontmen Nash Kato and Eddie “King” Roeser, calling from their Chicago homes, are at a loss to explain why it’s taken them this long to put it out into the world.  “We can’t possibly […]

The Revelries started in a college dorm room at Louisiana State University 2016 but almost immediately became a local performance band. A few years into their development, with some singles out, and having recorded their first EP, they became part of a program with EDGEOUT Records, a division of UMG, that intentionally develops Rock artists […]

In Spring of 2021, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mackenzie Shivers unveiled full-length album Rejection Letter, written partly while marooned on Cape Cod in the early days of the pandemic. This was also a period when she was exploring the guitar for the first time after many years focusing on the piano for songwriting. When the songs […]

Matt Pike has spent much of the last two years tinkering away in his garage in Portland, Oregon. Bummed to be off the road with his main bands – high-speed shredders High On Fire and pioneering stoner metal outfit Sleep – the guitarist made the best of it and recorded a solo album. Due out […]

Calling from his New York City home, acclaimed guitarist Lee Ranaldo admits that his latest solo album, In Virus Times (released in November via Mute Records) wasn’t even initially meant for public consumption at all. “When I made these recordings, I wasn’t really making them with the idea of releasing them as a record – […]

High-energy Folk-inspired trio Good Morning Bedlam are releasing new album Lulu on February 4th, and it represents a wide swatch of experience and development for them. The songs it contains span a period of intense touring before the pandemic, some early recording just before shutdowns, then some soul-searching songwriting that eventually led to some meticulous […]

Modern Folk artist Eddie Berman recently released his latest album, Broken English, which brings across a big sweep of cosmic themes in a very intriguing way through layered lyrics with plenty of cultural references to ponder. The album was very much recorded in ways inspired by Covid challenges, with Berman working remotely and recording all […]

“At the end of the day, we’re all still a bunch of kids cause we play music for a living, right,” Samantha Fish says with a knowing laugh. Having been a musician since her teens, she is very familiar with life on the road, playing guitar and singing songs of her own creation. She was […]

Lord Nelson’s new album Transmission is due out on January 21st and is the product of a very interesting evolution for the band. What originally started as a quick live album recorded between studio albums turned into their pandemic project and collaborating on finalizing the individual songs and tracks acted as a stand-in for the […]

For the last twelve months, Glide Magazine has covered the storied but woefully underappreciated thirty-year musical career of The Mother Hips. We have spent that time looking back at a band as it teetered on commercial success, slid into darkness, and then picked itself back up by the bootstraps and forged ahead into what would […]

Eva Gardner is most widely known for her twenty years of bass playing and extensive touring with acts like Moby, Cher, Gwen Stefani, and most recently, P!NK. She found the time to record and release her first solo EP, Chasing Ghosts, in 2014, and taking such an unusual hiatus from the road during the pandemic […]